Avaust 25, 1914] ` A FascicLeE or Norta Acusan Frias 2365 
the fire place. The cooking room floor is about five inches 
lower than the middle or main floor. For the edges of 
the rostrum floor, both around the inner and outer open 
sides, are neatly finished poles extending an inch or two 
above the floor level, making it very easy to pass over. 
The open side portion between the lower and upper floor 
is neatly closed up with softwood planks, giving the in- 
ner place a closed appearance anl incidentally shutting 
out exposure from under the house. One, two or even 
three of the sides of the house which are only about 
four feet high are closel up either with horizontal or vertical 
planks. These walls always taper outwardly toward the top. 
For windows they leave the upper plank or two out if the 
planks are horizontal; otherwise a one by one to two 
foot window is left in the construction of the wall. Only 
occasionally a partition wall is built across the rostrum. 
This rostrum floor is used for sleeping quarters and 
à light house work by the family. The edge of the inner ros- 
trum floor is used for seats. On several occasions I have seen 
every inch of this space taken, the central floor being occupied 
by the speaker or performer. The roof of the two main 
sides are longer and steep, the two narrower sides of the 
roof dove-tail into the ends of the apex a foot and a half 
below the upper edge, thereby leaving a triangular opening 
at each end and through which any of the inwardly passing 
smoke may readily draw out. At each end of the roof top is 
a six inch wide by four foot long upwardly curved board 
whose edges are ornamentally carved. That portion of the 
roof over the central floor is steep, curvingly changing into 
the flatter outer portion. The eaves are rather wide,  Rafters 
are of slender poles. Across these poles are laid bunches of 
three or four palm leaves four to six feet in length whose 
leaflets are carefully turned to one side. These bunches are 
four to six inches apart and make an absolute rain tight 
and very cool roof. Here and there in between these raft- 
ers and leaf bundles are strips of flat wood with orna- 
mentally carved edges. Even the exposel or free edges of 
the walls or partitions are carved. Wherever quantities of 
rattan is used for tieing in exposed easily seen piaces, it 
is peculiarly interlaced in an ornamental fashion. 
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